Segmentation of striatal brain structures from high resolution PET images

International Journal of Biomedical Imaging

Volumn 2009, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tohka, Jussi ^a   Farinha, Ricardo J P C ^a,b,c   Ruotsalainen, Ulla ^a   Hirvonen, Jussi ^d,e   Tuominen, Lauri ^d,e   Hietala, Jarmo ^d,e   Fonseca, José M ^b  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c Ramboll Finland Oy   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BRAIN IMAGES; BRAIN RESEARCH; BRAIN STRUCTURE; DEFORMABLE SURFACE MODELS; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; GRAPH PARTITIONING ALGORITHMS; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION PET; KERNEL K-MEANS; NUMBER OF CLUSTERS; PET SCANNER; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REAL IMAGE DATA; SEGMENTATION METHODS; STRIATUM;

POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 71149091013     PISSN: 16874188     EISSN: 16874196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2009/156234     Document Type: Article

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